Best albums of the 70s

[thedroid]

According to Paste magazine. Since there's so much love for the 1970s on here, I thought it would be of interest.


http://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/l...the-1970s.html

I'll break the news up front: no Rush, Kiss, or Van Halen.

A Day at the Races is on there but not A Night at the Opera? Odd.

[cledussnow]

Is Tago Mago on the list? I can't follow the link while at work...

[mbargav]

Originally Posted by cledussnow

Is Tago Mago on the list? I can't follow the link while at work...

No but, Ege Bamyasi is. Definitely not my top Can pick.

[iamdavea]

My own personal best would be Queen's Sheer Heart Attack, a triumph on every level.

[cledussnow]

Ege Bamyasi is super, but Tago Mago is epic.

[chervokas]

It's actually a pretty decent list, I mean all the albums on there are great. Of course any one or another person is going to quibble with another person's list, and, you know the order no one is ever going to agree on....but you know somehow I managed to grow up in the 1970s without ever buying a Rush, Kiss or Van Halen album so when it comes to my taste they're not missing much when it comes to rock. Plenty of great jazz albums of the 1970s missing though, Arthur Blythe's Lenox Ave Breakdown, Ornette Coleman's Science Fiction.....tons of great country music missing....no Grateful Dead......etc

[thedroid]

For the record, I too think it's a good list. I could argue with the order, and there are important artists on it that never really did anything for me, personally (Allman Bros., Talking Heads) but it's not bad.

[ianrodia]

Whoa...my first thought was Can also before I entered this thread. ha.

Tago most definitely should be over Bamyasi for me.

[shakeshakeshake]

nice list

[DWB1960]

After starting off their career with five studio albums (I, II, III, IV and Houses of the Holy) that ensured their legacy as one of the decade’s definitive rock acts, Led Zeppelin had no need to prove themselves further. That didn’t stop them from putting out their most ambitious record—a sprawling, 80+ minute double album that encapsulates their earlier blues rock and latter mystical psych-synth sound. On the first half of Physical Graffiti, Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones and John Bonham crafted some of their most influential songs, including “In My Time of Dying,” “Houses of the Holy” and “Kashmir.” It’s the record’s latter part, however, that brings it all together with a deep-cutting run featuring the band’s most unheralded songs.

[Baminated]

seems like a list w/no objective intent &/or a very small or narrow population sample

[Tuberoast]

It's not a bad list. I don't agree with the order, and there are many omissions..for me (London Calling for one, Dec 1979 release, unless it was on there and I blew by it). But, there wasn't a record on there that I wouldn't own, most of which I do.
I too am a Can fan! No early Genesis, didn't see Be Bop Deluxe, the Dead were pimped as well, Wire and others.

[ScottB]

That's a pretty reasonable list...

[Jet Age Eric]

Not only is Quadrophenia not number one, it's not even on the list; more proof that Paste just sucks. -E

[dsj]

Originally Posted by ianrodia

Whoa...my first thought was Can also before I entered this thread. ha.

Tago most definitely should be over Bamyasi for me.

Future Days is better than 'em both!